A former New York state tax department worker was accused of stealing the identities of thousands of taxpayers and running up more than $200,000 in fraudulent charges.
Hundreds of workers at a textile factory in southern China blocked roads Tuesday, in a second day of protests over unpaid wages, an employee said.
Prosecutors say a New Jersey horse farm worker charged with hacking two colleagues to death with a machete has confessed on videotape.
Phoenix police say a sanitation worker has been crushed to death in the compactor of his garbage truck.
President Barack Obama might as well be wearing a cape and have a big “W” on his chest that stands for worker.
A government study of about 2,000 Cuban state businesses found that 60 percent of employees came late, left early or otherwise shirked their duties, official media reported Wednesday.
A Wal-Mart employee has been charged with embezzlement after allegedly ringing up a sale of $5.25 for more than $500 worth of merchandise. Natchez Police Chief Mike Mullins said a 20-year-old cashier was arrested Thursday along with a 22-year-old customer at the Wal-Mart in Natchez.
A woman who worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Kansas City, Mo., is accused of running an online prostitution business through her government office computer.
Jamaica is working with a real estate company to build affordable homes for tourism workers amid a global economic slump.
A man buried up to his chest by an avalanche of dry cement at an industrial plant was in serious condition Friday after firefighters extracted him from a mound of gray powder, officials said.
The FBI confirmed Wednesday it was investigating allegations that a Louisiana farmer fired shotgun blasts over Mexican guest workers' heads, exposed them to pesticides and paid them less than minimum wage.
Millions of Americans had Labor Day off, but not Lucy Dumas. The 86-year-old Fargo woman did what she's always done: work. Dumas has been earning an income for more than 70 years. "You name it and I've done it," said Dumas, a former Hillsboro cafe owner who now works full-time at a fast-food restaurant.
A ranch worker hired by a Texas lawmaker is a suspected illegal immigrant now wanted in the fatal beating of a young man, authorities said Monday.
This Labor Day finds workers in worse shape than they've been in years, according to a scorecard released Monday by Rutgers University.
A barista who said he was fired from Starbucks Corp. for helping to organize fellow workers into a union has been given his job back.
American workers' confidence in the job market is as low as it was during the 2001 recession, according to a survey released Thursday.
Burger King Corp. said Tuesday it has parted ways with an employee who was recorded taking a soapy bath in the restaurant's utility sink. The nearly four-minute video, which was posted Thursday on MySpace.com, shows the unidentified employee taking the bath to celebrate his birthday.
A World Food Program contractor was gunned down in the fifth fatal attack this year on one of the agency's workers, the WFP said Tuesday as thousands of Somalis gathered to protest the assaults.
Fewer college students are pursuing computer-related degrees at a time when demand is increasing and thousands of baby boomers are retiring from technical jobs.
Thomas, a 60-year old project manager for a construction company, knows there’s a possibility for layoffs at his firm because of the sagging housing market. And Brandon, a customer service representative for a phone company in Oregon that’s about to be bought out by a telecommunication’s giant, fears his days may be numbered.
The shortage of workers at Ted Blair's three hotels near Yellowstone National Park is so severe that Blair himself might soon be busing tables and stripping beds.
Weary of waiting for Congress to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, the United Farm Workers hopes to recruit Mexican laborers to pick crops on U.S. farms.
Oil-rich Gulf nations, already facing labor protests, are getting new pressure from India, which wants them to pay minimum wages for unskilled workers.
An Amtrak train struck and killed a person a half-mile away from a New Hampshire station on Friday night, a day after another train accident killed a track worker in Providence.
A former worker in the city's troubled police crime lab was indicted Tuesday on charges of theft and tampering with drug evidence, officials said.
(Since I asked Senator Hutchison to explain her reasoning as to why tax cuts were superior to job creation, I have not had an answer. This is the latest missive to the esteemed senator requesting an explanation of her reasoning.) Dear Senator Hutchison,
A Swedish company has been fined 25,000 kronor ($3,000) after a malfunctioning robot attacked and almost killed one of its workers at a factory north of Stockholm.
The dynamics of the farm labor population have changed since César Chávez and others began organizing workers in California's fields.
An organization, may it be large or small, needs or requires a Secretary. He or she is the most important if not indispensable officer in any organization, association, establishment, institution, group, society, party, or business, etc.
A former Harrah's Las Vegas maintenance supervisor is suing the hotel, alleging it exposed him to asbestos during hotel remodeling and alleging it created a hostile work environment.
Exposure to the toxic chemical C8 appears to be linked to changes in the human immune system, according to the latest findings of a scientific panel studying the chemical.
With today's economic challenges, it stands to reason there will be more businesses closing, shrinking, and laying off workers. How not to be one of them? Well, this quick set of five danger signs and suggestions to avoid them may be worth reviewing
A German Red Cross worker found a dead baby in a Berlin clothing donation container on Monday morning, daily Berliner Zeitung reported.
My fellow Americans, I come before you at this crucial juncture in this nation's history, the fulfillment of the dream, the answer to the desperate whispered questions in the wind.
From 1983 to 1999 I was a full-time staff representative for one of the largest AFL-CIO affiliates in the Northeastern part of the United States - for a union.
A worker killed in an accident at a Ford facility in Brampton, Ontario, has been identified as a mother of two children" Shara Flanigan, who turned 36 on Monday, died Wednesday after a load of auto parts shifted on a forklift and crushed her.
It's time we refocused our lens on American workers and tried to see them in a fairer, more appreciative light.
Mr. Burnses of the world can raise workers' risk of cardiac woes, study says
A report released by the United Nations last month documented 490 attacks on UN offices, convoys, and premises between July 2007 and June this year, resulting in the deaths of 26 staff.
Pittsburgh police are investigating after a volunteer for the Republican campaign says she was attacked by a mugger who became enraged after seeing a John McCain bumper sticker on her car last night.
Harold Meyerson discusses the growing need for global solutions and global regulatory structures to match our global marketplaces and multinational corporations which often have larger GDP than many countries.
Worker Bathes In Burger King Sink An Ohio health inspector says it's a first in his book. He's received video of a Burger King worker taking a bath in a utility sink. See more irresistible headlines
Inflation surged in the second quarter with soaring energy and food costs, as any consumer can attest. The growth in workers' compensation, however, remained flat with the first quarter and down from a year earlier, the government's latest data show.
Prosecutors said Kenneth Douglas, 55, of Westwood, Ohio, sexually assaulted the body of 19-year-old Karen Range, who was murdered during an attempted rape Aug. 19, 1982, at her home. She had been severely beaten and had her throat slashed with a paring knife.
Federal officials said Friday that Imperial Sugar Co. should face fines of more than $8.7 million for violations at two plants, including a Georgia facility where an explosion killed 13 people.
Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the first discovery... of asteroids with a spectrum similar to that of ordinary chondrites, the meteoritic material that most resembles the composition of our Sun.
A news segment from Bill Moyers' Journal on PBS this past week exposed how poultry workers in the Carolinas are losing their body parts. And, how Bush's administration had a hand in it.
A vengeful worker who drugged and tortured her boss in a bid to extract a £200,000 ransom was jailed for 10 years yesterday.
Like millions of other laborers working outside of their countries of origin, the roughly 642,000 migrant workers in Korea arrive with high hopes for change in a foreign land. But for many, the pursuit of the "Korean dream" ends up turning into more of migratory nightmare.
At the height of the Great Depression, industry convinced President Franklin Roosevelt and Congress to enact a law allowing companies to collude to drive up prices.